The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-17

now suspended the arrangement ana
has made rates from Chicago to Mar
shalltown and fom Marshalltown to
the places Of consignment OF the com
psny's goods, which are enormously
higher than the rates from Chicago to
such places OF consignment. As re-
suit OF this action, the petitioner must
eth ship ct great financial loss or
shut down its factories and discharge
Its employees. The margin Ia the
business has for some years been very
close, the company Is carrying large
stock and the season Of greatest con.
sumption lie at hand. The system OF
making squ Lied rates has been cua'
tomary in the Northwest, and the pc
titioner's case is represented ss similar
to that OF hundreds OF other establish
ments. The petitioner therefore asks
that the system be sanctioned, or the
operation OF the law be suspended uu-
iii such time as the subj ct can be in
vestigated.
The Commission mod fed today the
order heretofore granted on the appli-
cation OF the Noble and Ohio Rail-
road Company. 80 an to conform with
the order made on the application OF
the Southern Railway and Steamship
Association; limiting It's operations to
psints south OF the Ohio river and to
business to and from such points, from
and to points north OF the Ohio river.
A similar order was also granted upon
the petitions OF other railroads south
of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi,
namely, the Illinois Central, the st.
Louis and Cairo Short Line, the Ten.
neesee and Ohio, the Norfolk and
Western, the Richmond, Fredericks-
burg and Potomac, the New York,
Philadelphia and Norfolk, the Cape
Fear aud Ysdkin Valley, the LOUIS
vile, New Orleans and Texas, and the
Newport News and Mississippi Valley
roads. No other cases were acted
upon.
THE REVENUE eTRAMKR BEAR
Is being fitted out at San Francisco for
cruise In the Arctic ocean. She will
start early in May. IL is expected
th at she will Curry instructions to the
treasury agents stationed on the seal
islands for the better protection OF the
seal fisheries from foreign encroach-
ments. The question Of the iurisdic-
ton OF the United States over the
waters surrounding the islands be-
yond the three mile limit has been
under consideration at several recent
Cabinet meetings, but 60 far as known
has not yet been determined to the
satisfaction OF the departments most
directly commemorative State and
Treasury. The officers OF the Bear
will be charged with the execution OF
the policy decided upon.
APPOINTMENTS.
The President this afternoon made
the following appointments: Alexan-
der r Lawton, OF Georgia, to be En-
voy Extraordinary and Minister Plen.
ipeteDtiary TO Aust la Hungary; New
man w. Mcdonnell, of Tennessee, to
be Ohiel Justice Of tle Supreme Court
of Montaua Tel riior,, and George 3.
Peters, OF Ohio, to be an attorney OF
the United States for the Territory OF
Utah.
The President this afternoon APP
pointed Joseph b. Lane, of Oregon, to
be agent OF the Ind aas OF the SiietE
Agency in Oregon.
THE REVIVAL OF sHoDDYIsM.
The "Hush- Thee My. Baby" bust
ness at the christening Of Whitney's
kid has made the press Of the country
very tired, and no wonder! Follow
ing Mr.. Cleveland's request that a
private entrance be cut for him In
Albaughs Thester building, so that
he may be abe TO avoid the crowd
when he attends an entertainment, 1t
creates all the more disgust among
sensible people. The Democratic
press is 40 sore over these exhibitions
of shoddyism as the Republican.
Witness Mr.. Watterson's remarks on
the subject: AT a time when oil that
Ia mean and sordid ia our shoddy B.
ciety is turning Itself inside out 10
ape the manners oil the titled and
rich aristooracies OF Christendom,
when i'll got wealth is turning heels
over head In the scramble for coarse,
corrupting pre.eminence in PAR
venuism, when the old stately Cour-
tesy of simple manhood aud woman
hood which once were a grace aud
charm all their own in our public
walk, and ways are being ingulied in
the hog wallow OF the new made
greatness, with its imported trappings,
1t was most fit and needful that a
Democratic President and bis Demo
cratic administration should rise above
the mud and the mire Of fraud and
cant and plant themselves upon the
high and solid ground of sslf-honoring
reality, with its homely lessons Of
modesty and tiu h. A private en-
trance to a private box because the
crowd "annoys" hint Fab, and out
upon such tomfooleryi On what
Buildings doth this our birdie feed that
he hath grown 80 sensitiveS